A B-52 Almost Crashed Into a Delta Flight, and We Only Know About It Because Someone Posted It on TikTok

Isn’t someone supposed to be regulating this stuff?

By Braden Bjella

Published 4 months ago in Wtf

Over the weekend, a video went viral of yet another near-miss in the aviation world. This time around, it was a B-52 bomber nearly crashing into a Delta flight. And we know that this happened because someone posted about it on TikTok.


According to CNN, a Delta Connection pilot on SkyWest Flight 3788 had to abruptly turn to avoid a midair collision with a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber, leading to an apology from the pilot that made its way to TikTok.


“I don’t know how fast they were going, but they were a lot faster than us,” the pilot said. “I thought that was the safest thing to do was turn behind it.”


Thank goodness for the pilot’s quick thinking, but at the same time, I really hope our systems of air travel have more fail-safes in place than “a pilot will hopefully notice if he’s about to get hit by a bomber.”

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